Living plants contain the energy of the
sun. These are the foods that can purify, heal and cleanse your body of
leftover wastes. Raw and living foods and juices are filled with all of
the vital essence of nature, providing you with antioxidants, vital
nutrients, enzymes and oxygen. They will lift you up and help restore
you to radiant health.

The juice extracted from green
vegetables, sprouts, and cerial grasses contains the greatest abundance
of chlorophyll available on the planet. Chlorophyll is sunlight that has
been transmuted through a natural alchemical process into an edible
form. In alchemical terms, it has become the blood of the plant, the
vital fluid that is extracted through juicing. When you start consuming
greens blended or juiced, the blood within the body becomes
super-charged with the life-giving powers of the sun.

Chlorophyll helps remove heavy metals
from the body which can hinder the growth of the good bacteria in the
intestines. It also contain vitamins, minerals and enzymes, it helps
build the immune system, improves the digestive system, improves energy
levels and normalizes blood sugar and blood pressure levels.

For example, broccoli and spinach are
around 50% protein. Kale is 27% protein. A pound of kale, for
example, supplies above the recommended daily allowance for many of
the essential amino acids, the building blocks of protein, and close to
the RDA for many others. All of this nutrition is neatly packed into
roughly 225 calories.

When greens are blended the nutrients
locked in the cell walls are released, thus making them more nutritious
for you. Apparently a lot of the nutrition is locked in the cell walls
and, due to the fibrous nature of the walls, chewing does not do a very
efficient job of breaking them all down and releasing the nutrients.
Blending the greens releases a lot more of the nutrition.

Start slowly if this is new for you.
Start by making a recipe without the greens and add a small handful of
spinach the first day. You’ll notice that the smoothie tastes delicious
and you can’t taste the spinach at all. Slowly work your way up until
greens make up between 40 and 60% of the smoothie.

Experiment with the receipes here and
try your own. You’ll be surprised at how much you like green smoothies
and happy about how much more energetic you feel when you drink them.

Ideally, work up to having a 32 ounce green smoothie to start your day and then a blended green soup as part of your dinner.
Once you get in the habit, consuming lots of greens becomes easy, especially when you blend them.

If like me you’ve used coffee and sugar
to pick you up, try having one green smoothie a day to start with. It’s a
lot kinder to your adrenals and works a treat. My favourite at the
moment is:

A Handfull of green leafy stuff, spinach is good to start as it has a neutral taste.
½ cup water or coconut water
Mix up your greens, whatever is freshest. Change them up though for variety and in the name of experimentation

Or

1 cup water or coconut water
Ripe banana
2-3 large leaves of kale
3 dried apricots

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